Re: POTUS: It Can Happen Here Again
“You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”
Everything about this tirade against our generals is believable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html
Even though much of this has been reported over the last couple of years it is still somewhat shocking to me to realize the kind of mental midget we have sitting in the White House.
Some of what was described in the article reminds me of the way Hitler reacted with his military leadership, especially after relations with the Soviet Union turned from uneasy non-aggression pacts to open warfare and Hitler knew that Germany could most likely not realize a military victory. Hitler was evil and crazy. Is trump as evil or as crazy? I bet he's as least as crazy.
I also wonder about the motivations to stay somewhat silent for most of the people in trump's circle, even after they leave the service to the government and country. Part of me is thinking they are just (hopefully) passing the buck, and assume that after seeing this moron in action for 4 years, the vast majority of Americans in nearly every state will not want to give him another term.
But part of me thinks their silence is for more dangerous reasons. What if they were afraid that if some critical mass of people like Kelly, Mattis, Tillerson or others who worked in the White House really began to convince some republican leaders that the president is an actual danger far beyond just being the most incompetent and corrupt person to every rise to be president they would be setting into motion forces that might get out of control? In that regard too, they may be hoping that our ONLY hope is to hope he doesn't win re-election.
Of course the saddest and most troubling part of all of this is that there is no way in Hell the vast, vast majority of trump supporters will read either the WaPo article, or the book it is based on. How many trump supporters are readers? How many can read beyond a middle school level? That question is serious too.
For all the talking and ribbing each other and joking all of us do here on this forum I have to confess, I am also actually scared. I was a child and then young adult through the Cold War but I don't recall a lot of fear or unease on my part worrying about Russian missiles raining down. When I got older and began to read my mother's copy of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, I recall debating her on the problems of both nuclear power and weapons, and of the threat of the Soviet Union or the "Red" Chinese, as the term was then. She was far more concerned and fearful than I was, even expressing concern that Reagan might be the president who actually starts a nuclear conflict. Maybe part of that was the parent always fears for the future of the child. Today, I am fearful.
We can do better.
